Gender Division of Labour: From human to silkworm in sericultural practice

Silkworm raising and silk processing were conventionally regarded as women’s work in agricultural practices ancient China, while contemporary gender division of labour this field maintains stereotype witnesses more nuanced inequality domestic institutional settings. Meanwhile, although silkworms the sericultural industry won’t be differentiated by sex except for reproduction purposes, spun male are concerned better quality biologists, who thus worked on feasibility male-only exclusively. Male-silk products aim to meet high-end demand luxury international market, those unwanted female made die embryo breed selections. This paper questions genetic suppression constructed knowledge masculine premium quality, shows how sexist ideologies intentionally copied imposed into silkworm community serve humans’ pursuit cultural capital. Female suffer double oppression sexism anthropocentrism, which poses challenges formulate trans-species ethics care both scientific studies.